AfD is not the heroic opposition it claims to be

The upcoming German election pits two very similar power camps against each other, with one of them thriving on elite panic Recently, a middle-aged man on an e-bike was passing me on the sidewalk. Out of nowhere, he swerved, kicked me in the shin, shouted “Leftist pig!” and sped off. An elderly woman with a walker asked me, visibly shaken, if I knew him. I said no, just as alarmed as she was.A little later, a woman was handing out SPD balloons between market stalls and a stage in the town center. I listed the cruelties her party in Berlin is currently shoving down the throats of workers. She squeezed out the word “constraints,” pointed to the CDU, and brushed me off. The DGB trade union federation has also apparently awakened from its coma. A Verdi trade union member was recruiting members and babbling about “solidarity.” I asked him whether he meant that “social partnership between capital and labor” that has never actually existed. He looked at me in confusion and said this was all about the AfD. When I replied that the AfD also just wants to enforce capital’s interests through law, just as the SPD does in government, he quickly cut the conversation short. He had no interest in l...